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On twitter we spend time in silly debates: is degrowth impoverishment, negative GDP, lockdown misery bla bla. But in our normal lives we are producing some pretty k.a. research. Here are 22 papers by researchers from the (broader) degrowth community published just the last year!

I give these in no particular order. And they range from the most quantitative to the most ethnographic or the most philosophical (disclaimer: I am in involved in 4). These are papers that I happened to read. I am sure I miss many more - please add at the end of the thread!

I wont summarise the papers. Take a look at the abstracts. And if you don& #39;t have access to the full paper, email the first author for a copy. In the degrowth community we are happy to share our research. So, here we go, let& #39;s start the countdown! 22 papers to go :)

1.Scientists& #39; warning on affluence https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y?fbclid=IwAR0AG6Lz_CcR2XY0uxVvKNmjnlWP0YLXl6iBcUfl8gcZmTjR7-ZVb3W3oes">https://www.nature.com/articles/...

Scientists’ warning on affluence

Current environmental impact mitigation neglects over-consumption from affluent citizens as a primary driver. The authors highlight the role of bottom-up movements to overcome structural economic...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y?fbclid=IwAR0AG6Lz_CcR2XY0uxVvKNmjnlWP0YLXl6iBcUfl8gcZmTjR7-ZVb3W3oes

2. Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

3. Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

4. Shifting economic activity to services has limited potential to reduce global environmental impacts due to the household consumption of labour https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1...

5. The dangers of decoupling https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/1...

6.Degrowth and the State https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180091831749X">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

Degrowth and the State

This paper addresses a gap in degrowth scholarship: the lack of a theory of the state. Those who write about degrowth advocate radical policy and soci…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092180091831749X

7. Environmental Justice, Degrowth and Post-capitalist futures https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

8. Degrowth and critical agrarian studies https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

9.Degrowth through income and wealth caps https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918314836">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

Degrowth through income and wealth caps?

In the degrowth literature, maximum caps on wealth and/or income are frequently mentioned among the policy instruments that could support transitions …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918314836

10.What About the Global South? Towards a Feminist Decolonial Degrowth Approach https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918301228">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

What About the Global South? Towards a Feminist Decolonial Degrowth Approach

Degrowth calls for a profound socio-ecological transformation towards a socially just and environmentally sound society. So far, the global dimensions…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918301228

11.A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918318391">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements

Degrowth and environmental justice movements share overarching aims of sustainability and justice and pursue them through radical social change and re…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918318391

12.The Labor(s) of degrowth https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455752.2017.1373300">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

The Labor(s) of Degrowth

(2019). The Labor(s) of Degrowth. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 207-216.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455752.2017.1373300

13.Ecological economics and degrowth: Proposing a future research agenda from the margins https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800919304744">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

Ecological economics and degrowth: Proposing a future research agenda from the margins

Research by ecological economists on degrowth is a flourishing field. Existing research has focused on limits to (green) growth and on economic altern…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800919304744

14.Decolonizing degrowth in the post-development convergence: Questions, experiences, and proposals from two Indigenous territories https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2514848618819478">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/...

Decolonizing degrowth in the post-development convergence: Questions, experiences, and proposals...

A growing coalition of degrowth scholar-activist(s) seeks to transform degrowth into an interdisciplinary and international field bridging a rising network of s...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2514848618819478

15.First Nations sovereignty, Environmental Justice, and Degrowth in Northwest BC, Canada https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918303100">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

First Nations sovereignty, Environmental Justice, and Degrowth in Northwest BC, Canada

Environmental Injustice has been intrinsic to Canadian extractivism, with First Nations displaced from their traditional territories and their cultura…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918303100

16.Degrowth and the Unmaking of Capitalism https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1790">https://acme-journal.org/index.php...

17.The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848619835135">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1...

The ‘state’ of degrowth: Economic growth and the making of state hegemony in Turkey - Bengi...

Critical perspectives on economic growth have laid bare the fragility of the assumed link between material growth and socio-ecological wellbeing. The appeal of ...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848619835135

18.Climate Change and the Polanyian Counter-movement: Carbon Markets or Degrowth? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2017.1417364">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

Climate Change and the Polanyian Counter-movement: Carbon Markets or Degrowth?

(2019). Climate Change and the Polanyian Counter-movement: Carbon Markets or Degrowth? New Political Economy: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 89-102.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2017.1417364

19.Structure, action and change: a Bourdieusian perspective on the preconditions for a degrowth transition https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2020.1754693">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

Structure, action and change: a Bourdieusian perspective on the preconditions for a degrowth...

(2020). Structure, action and change: a Bourdieusian perspective on the preconditions for a degrowth transition. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 4-14.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2020.1754693

20.A Green New Deal without growth https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919319615">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

A Green New Deal without growth?

The IPCC warns that in order to keep global warming under 1.5°, global emissions must be cut to zero by 2050. Policymakers and scholars debate how bes…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919319615

http://21.Is"> http://21.Is green growth possible? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598964">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

Is Green Growth Possible?

(2020). Is Green Growth Possible? New Political Economy: Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 469-486.

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22. Crisis, liminality and the decolonization of the social imaginary https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848619841809">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1...

Crisis, liminality and the decolonization of the social imaginary - Angelos Varvarousis, 2019

The decolonization of the social imaginary has been proposed as an important dimension of the transition towards a degrowth society. However, although omniprese...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848619841809

These were only papers published after 2019! For a review of the degrowth literature before, check our 2018 "Research on Degrowth" https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941">https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/1...

Research On Degrowth

Scholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical political and...

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941

Or the 2017 review by Weiss and Cattaneo - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800916305900">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...

Degrowth – Taking Stock and Reviewing an Emerging Academic Paradigm

Degrowth has evolved within a decade from an activist movement into a multi-disciplinary academic paradigm. However, an overview taking stock of the p…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800916305900

For the older French literature on degrowth, a good review in English is found in a 2008 paper by Valerie Fournier "Escaping from the economy: the politics of degrowth& #39; https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/01443330810915233/full/html">https://www.emerald.com/insight/c... / End of Thread - feel free to add other recent papers below.

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